{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2018}} {{Use British English|date=February 2018}} '''Cellach I''' is traditionally said to have been the first [[Bishop of St. Andrews|Bishop of the Scots]] ([[floruit|fl.]] 878x889-906x), the bishopric later based at [[St Andrews|St. Andrews]]. He is mentioned in the historical writings of [[Walter Bower]] and [[Andrew of Wyntoun]] as a bishop of St. Andrews, but no pre-15th century sources say anything more than merely "Bishop".<ref>John Macqueen, Winifred MacQueen, & D.E.R. Watt, (eds.), ''Scottichronicon by Walter Bower in Latin and English'', Vol. 3, (Aberdeen, 1995), pp. 343, 462.</ref> Wyntoun and Bower make him bishop as early as the reign of King [[Giric of Scotland]] (877x878-885x889).<ref>Wyntoun, iv. 184-5; Bower, iv. 17</ref> He was still bishop in the reign of King [[Constantine II of Scotland|Causantín II of Scotland]] in 906 when, "in his sixth year King Causantín and Bishop Cellach met at the hill of belief near the royal city of Scone and pledged themselves that the laws and disciplines of the faith, and the laws of churches and gospels, should be kept in conformity with the customs of the Gaels".<ref>Anderson, Alan Orr (1922), Early Sources of Scottish History A.D. 500 to 1286, I (1990 revised & corrected ed.), p.445. Stamford: Paul Watkins, ISBN 1-871615-03-8</ref> One interpretation of this passage is the demise of the "Pictish church" to the reforming Gaels,<ref>Dauvit Broun, "Dunkeld and the origin of Scottish identity", in ''Innes Review'' 48 (1997), reprinted in ''Spes Scotorum: Hope of Scots'', eds. Broun and Clancy (1999), pp. 107-109, & n. 54.</ref> however it is certain that by the 15th century the bishop-list of the principal Scottish see was looking back at Cellach as its first bishop.<ref>Molly Miller, "The Last Century of Pictish Succession", in ''Scottish Studies'', 23, 1979, pp. 48-9.</ref> His death date is unknown, but unsurprisingly he was certainly dead by the 960s when his successor [[Fothad I]] died as bishop.
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==References== *[[Alan Orr Anderson|Anderson, Alan Orr]] (1922), Early Sources of Scottish History A.D. 500 to 1286, I (1990 revised & corrected ed.), Stamford: Paul Watkins, ISBN 1-871615-03-8 *[[Dauvit Broun|Broun, Dauvit]], "Dunkeld and the origin of Scottish identity", in ''Innes Review'' 48 (1997), pp. 112–124, reprinted in ''Spes Scotorum: Hope of Scots'', eds. Broun and Clancy (1999), pp. 95–111. *MacQueen, John, MacQueen, Winifred & Watt, D.E.R. (eds.), ''Scottichronicon by Walter Bower in Latin and English'', Vol. 3, (Aberdeen, 1995) *Miller, Molly, "The Last Century of Pictish Succession", in ''Scottish Studies'', 23, 1979, pp. 39–67
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